Does better hair health come from improved living habits?

Read 5 tips to better health here…to great hair!

Carson McCord – my son is happy

I’ve always been fascinated with mental health, daily living activities, attitudes that result in great hair, skin and nails.

I have raised my babies to adulthood with two very different lifestyles that were applicable to them. Stay with me here. When we talk about daily living habits, this means what do you do on a daily basis with your habits to  support a positive mental attitude. Happy people have better outlooks in life. Happy people have the magnetic ways of attracting more positive to themselves. 

This isn’t to say that angry people couldn’t become happy. They can however; sometimes in life’s happenstances, stuff happens. It’s what you do with what you have before you react to the situation. Reaction, is the key word in how we handle our stress related activities.

Let’s get to the core of better health habits that can help you grow your hair, skin and nails quickly.

1. Eating more frequently with less volume. Consuming larger or heavy meal before bed can lead to insomnia. Avoid foods like pizza that could cause indigestion. Try nuts or yogurt if you have to eat.
2. Excercise early in the day. Working out can help you fall asleep faster and more soundly, but you want to avoid close to bed time (even though you might have just got home from work) because your body secrets the Cortisol for your stress hormone that is the last thing you want to stimulate.
3. Quiet! Loud noises can be distracting and detrimental to sleep. Use white noise to help you relax or app. Try head phones to block out noise.
4. Dim the lights. Lights signal your brain to make melatonin, the hormone that induces sleep. Dim all lights at least 2 – 3 hours prior heading to bed. This will relax you and help you chill out. With some of the oils such as Lavender can be applied to the wrist or in a mist for an aromatherapy candle to enhance your mood. My daughter uses this for her twins to help them relax and go to sleep before they go to bed.
5. Avoid naps during the day. Now if you get up early and work out then you have the flexibility in your day that you are up another 8 – 12 hours then catch a 20 minute nap. If you are feeling the slump (like I do during my work day) take a walk, eat lunch that is light. My sister takes a nap at the same time during the day and she will say I have to take a nap and then she calls me back right after her moment.

You know the saying, “what goes in must come out” through your hair. If you lead a healthy and happy lifestyle even though you have some work stress or family stress, your body will respond accordingly. We recommend supplementing your diet with CollagenBlu learn more here.

I know that you may go with Paleo, South Beach diets, Vegan or whatever you choose to do, its about BALANCE. Of course. I prescribe to chocolate for my attitude and large diet coke Shh… Is this good for you? The soda is not good for you. I drink so much water to offset the volume of soda I drink.

When my son was hurt at 11 weeks of age, he was totally dependent on me to provide healthy foods and the other items that are already described above. It’s easier to manage others more than ourselves. I have had to go organic and vegan foods until my son became iron deficient! As you can see in the photo the vegetables are whole then I would puree them into a smooth consistency in order for him to eat his food by mouth. When my son was injured, he had lost his ability to chew. In order to keep him healthy, the flavors of food needed to be tasty yet, give him energy and easy to digest. 

Health needs to be managed well and you can also get blood tests to see what lies beneath. Blood levels will tell you more of what is going on to help you manage your potassium, magnesium and cholesterol, etc.

All of these great tips will help you keep your body healthy that leads to fabulous thicker, fuller hair and nail growth. After a year and 1/2, my hair  has recovered from stress, lack of sleep and you can see the difference between where the hair is health and the ends that are thin and stribbly.

see 1/2 of the hair grown out 1,5 years/previously cut 6″ off look at the old fine hair on the ends 9/2018

April 2017 showing short broken off, loss of hair

1 year after hair loss from stress 2018

I support the information in the article that I read was written by Kamala Kirk, Sweet Dreams, in Beauty Launchpad October 2018

“Is it possible to have gray hair?”

gray hair

I hear many of the same questions as I get consults coming into the salon. Here are a few of the questions that I get:

“will I look old if I try gray hair?”

“am I to young for gray hair?”

“how long before I can just let my hair grow out white?”

“can I stop coloring my gray hair?”

“is it easy to go from blonde to gray hair?”

“what if I have dark brown hair that I want to grow my gray hair out?”

These are just some of the questions our stylists have to answer during their consultations. No matter if you are young or mature (hee hee) the processes are still the same. We need to evaluate the health of your hair before we start any processes. If your hair is super dark we have to remove the color at the scalp and the mid length and ends to make the palette even in order to color.

Going from dark to white is a challenging process and has to be done safely. Hair can break off. Could thin out too. Part of the conversation taking our clients from orangy highlighted hair to a gray platinum or mauve shades does require a period of time to process meaning lifting and toning.

Do you want to stop coloring you hair? Maybe you do but if you let the color grow out to 1/2 way down your head that leaves you with dark brown roots with some gray in it that doesn’t look very good. I recommend talking about creating a look that can be grown out looking stylish vs growth that looks unkempt.

Tones of gray hair will look different on every single skin tone. We recommend that you choose between the darker steel tones vs platinum depending on whether you wear makeup or not. The grow out color will help us choose what is best for you plus how far your hair will lift up from the natural or orangy base color. So many factors go into creating the correct look for your skin, your lifestyle and if you can style your hair curly or straight.

Many of our clients have been surprised that they have had to spend hours day 1 just sitting and lightening up (bleaching) till we get the right tone to work with. Sometimes we even do day 2 lightening up again safely. We always consider the porosity of the hair. the ability of the hair to hold the newest gray shade and what can we do to maintain it.

Often times, our clients think its a cheap process and once you bleach out the hair, they think that we just pop a color on and that’s it till next month. This couldn’t be further from the truth. In reality the client is back in the salon in about 3 – 4 weeks for a toner or what we call a color balance to keep the tone and to check on the integrity of the hair. If the hair has grown out 1/4″ we have to rebleach the hair and then tone again.

If the client likes a darker root like my daughter Alex, we will leave the root along until she has a larger regrowth then we would tone down the root color and color balance the ends again to keep it in tip top shape gray hair. In this instance, it did take two days 16 hours to get Alex’s hair the way it needed to be to reach the gray tones.  Her scalp color is a brown violet color with 4 shades of gray violet, darker gray, platinum gray and a rose color.

Many shades of gray hair

If the hair is fragile, we will offer to do a Brazilian Blowout to seal the ends together on fragile hair. In most cases this will protect the hair and keep the gray hair color in longer.

I love that my daughter is willing to try new colors for the trends 2018. It is easy to go darker but not as easy as she thought it would be to keep her hair on the gray scale of color.

She has to use toners, conditioning treatments to keep her hair the same tone. She has baby fine hair so that makes it a little sketchy when coloring her hair with bleaches and toners. We also use a product such as Wella to help mend the bonds of her hair. Wella has superior products that are designed to rebond the hair during the processing of the bleaching or toning process.

Interested in trying  a new hair color such as gray? Give us a call at 717.846.4424.

Dreaming of long hair? Losing hair? Experiencing shedding?

                                        My HAIR STOPPED GROWING!

The same length for years. You’ve done it all. Collagen, Biotin, frequent trims yet the hair seems to stay the same length no matter what you do. I’ve heard this for years from my clients. Since 2017, Indulge Salon, York, Pa and Indulge Salon Greensboro, GA have seen hair grow and get fuller and thicker with a hair growing process that we have seen 100% results for ever single person that has used our system.

Yes, we suggest a hair growing system. However; if you have been dreaming of hair to your breast, dreaming of hair down the back that is fuller and thicker we can make this happen for you in about 1 hour with Hairdreams hair extensions.

We do use other brands too, but this is the newest innovation and creative force for hair extensions that are by far a luxury source that is far superior to any other brands we have used in our salons.

We love to make hair dreams come true. Recently, a couple of my team members headed to Philadelphia, Pa to a luxury hair extension company that revealed the secrets to stunningly beautiful hair.

Hairdreams extensions expect to all of their customers to take training to be certified in the Hairdreams certification 2 day process. Alexa and myself did complete the training as well as Christina in our Lake Oconee, Greensboro, Ga location.

This “instant” hair installation is the most beautiful hair that comes from Austria. An important distinction of hair companies that provide hair extensions is essential to know what is being installed in your hair. Take a look at this point of difference:

Hair Dreams comparison between other brands

As you can see on the left image, Hairdreams is consistent from root to ends of the hair thickness. The competitor shows the tapering of the hair at the ends that could look or be almost 1 – 2″ in difference. What are you paying for?

I learned this valuable lesson in class at the Hairdreams training. I mean this company is very detail oriented when it comes to their brand. I was so impressed with the knowledge that I wanted to share with you some other points of difference.

The before process is all about prepping the hair to make sure the adhesive that is applied to your hair will be healthy and installed properly to PREVENT breakage. Many other brands pull the hair tightly on each side causing an apex affect vs the hair strand laying in the natural fall that lays down therefore growing out properly and not twisting causing knots and damage.

The hair can be colored with a depositing color not lifted depending on the type of grade of hair installed. Because the hair is processed before we receive it in the customized coloring of two shades or one shade mixed, low maintenance or no maintenance is required. The installation will proceed once we receive the hair. It takes about 3 – 5 days unless we overnight the hair.

Hair color choices can come in multi toned from ashy blonde, golden blonde, mixtures of blonde, lowlights, dark espresso, red, auburn the colors are limitless.

Hairdreams hair extension colors are limitless

I will say that the after care process is essential and will be part of your training to care for your hair. The hair will last about 3 months to 4 months and sometimes 6 months however I do say that with caution because you really do need to care for your hair properly to even get them to last that long. The hair will last, it’s about your hair dreams coming true by brushing the way we teach you every day. Washing your hair, conditioning the hairdreams will be taken seriously to ensure that you get the longest lasting result possible.

We will require several maintenance appointments for you to come in to cut off or trim the shedding hair that grows out of your head while you have your hairdreams extensions in your hair.

If maintenance is not done correctly, the possibility of hair matting or growing out with knots could be a high likelihood. We won’t allow that to happen on our watch but you need to do your part to keeping them in good shape.

The weight of your hair will change. The cool thing that you will be able to experience is the actual new weight of your hair equally distributed throughout your hair. I loved the way the new hair feels so soft and silk  like luxurious silk. I loved running my fingers through the hairdreams hair.

Our very own front desk coordinator Diane was or model see her on our facebook page: Indulgesalon – she had started out with long hair but lacked the luster that she was able to have with 2 colors of hair extensions that look natural. The hairdreams extensions made her hair look thick and beautiful. We were proud of the results of her new length of hair.

Diane hairdreams after

She said, “my hair feels fuller at the bottom. I love the natural looking highlights these hairdreams extensions gave me.” Diane Hayes, York, Pa 

Sleeping with your new hairdreams hair will require braiding the hair. Washing your hairdreams hair is done with specific instructions that we will go over with you to make sure you know what you are doing. Hair color, highlighting the hairdreams can and will alter the structure of the hair. We can do this with purpose and will color the natural hair by highlighting the hair. We will do everything to protect the integrity of the hair for your own and the hairdreams extensions.

For more information about other types of hair extensions start reading here. 

We are happy to provide a consultation that you can make some choices on the colors that we can incorporate with your hair, length, style and we can tell you what we need to do to prepare your hair, the products you will need to use or purchase and the approximate cost of the services. Call 717.846.4424 to set up your time.